The Nacional Post
Market31 Aug 2026
Martim Watts puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nacional, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Nacional
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Chicago Fire tell Nacional: Leonardo Barroso is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market31 Aug 2026
A long bet from Nacional on Thiago Pimenta
He is 19, and nobody at Nacional signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Nacional
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Nacional ask about Ivo Visona
A loan enquiry to Platense: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The formation has left Thiago Pimenta behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Nacional will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Nacional training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filipe Soares is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Gustavo Neves chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
- Market Sassá brings the grey hairs Nacional lacked
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Chuchu Ramírez
- Match Point won or two lost for Nacional?